Deutéronome 4:42

Louis Segond

afin qu'elles servissent de refuge au meurtrier qui aurait involontairement tué son prochain, sans avoir été auparavant son ennemi, et afin qu'il pût sauver sa vie en s'enfuyant dans l'une de ces villes.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Afin que le meurtrier, qui aurait tu� son prochain par m�garde et sans l'avoir ha� auparavant, p�t s'y r�fugier, et sauver sa vie, en fuyant dans l'une de ces villes,

Darby's French Translation
afin que l'homicide qui aurait tu� son prochain sans le savoir, et qui ne l'aurait pas ha� auparavant, s'y enfu�t, et que, s'enfuyant dans l'une de ces villes-l�, il v�c�t:

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Afin que le meurtrier qui aurait tu� son prochain par m�garde, et sans l'avoir ha� auparavant, s'y retir�t; et que fuyant en l'une de ces villes-l�, il e�t sa vie sauve.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 19:1-10, Numbers 35:6, Numbers 35:11, Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:15-28, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:4 - the slayer

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That the slayer might flee thither,.... For refuge; the slayer of a man, but not any slayer, but

which should kill his neighbour unawares; by accident to him, without any design and intention to kill him; ignorantly, as the Septuagint version; and so Onkelos:

and hated him not in times past; it having never appeared that there had been a quarrel between them, and that the slayer had shown any enmity to the man slain any time before the fact, or bore a grudge against him, or spite unto him:

and that, fleeing unto one of these cities, he might live; in peace and safety unto his own death, or unto the death of the high priest, when he was released from his confinement to the city of his refuge, and might return to his tribe, house, family, and possessions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are inserted between two distinct and complete discourses for the reason to which they themselves call attention (“Then Moses severed three cities,” etc.); i. e., the fact narrated took place historically after Moses spoke the one discourse and before he delivered the other. In thus severing the three cities of refuge Moses carried out a previous command of God (see the marginal references); and so followed up his exhortations to obedience by setting a punctual example of it, as far as opportunity was given him.

Deuteronomy 4:43

In the plain country - literally, “in the land of the Mishor.” The word means a level tract of land; but when used (Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 13:9, etc.) with the article, seems to be the proper name for the smooth downs of Moab, which reach from the Jordan eastward of Jericho far into the Desert of Arabia, and which form a striking contrast alike to the rugged country west of the river, and to the higher and remarkable districts belonging to Bashan northward.

Bezer is, with little certainty, identified with Bostra, or (1 Macc. 5:36) Bosor. Golan gave the name of Gaulonitis to a district of some extent east of the sea of Galilee and north of the Hieromax; but the exact site of the city if uncertain.